Significance

                 When I first signed up for GLAD, I thought, learning leadership skills? Cool, sounds easy enough I mean I feel like its something we all have permanently embedded in our brains anyways. Be a role model, learn from mistakes, be someone you'd want to look up to. But when reading this first section of the book It dawned on me, knowing how to be a leader might be easy at first glance, but what kind of leader to I want to be?
                   How do I want people to remember me? All throughout life, people judge you based on first impressions alone, and its quite difficult to break out of that impression and prove people wrong a lot of the time. This got me thinking, I go through my day not really caring about what people think of me, and just saying to myself "if they don't like what I'm doing, oh well its not their business." In reality that's a very good way to look at life; however, most of the time we all spend to much time worrying about the stupid things people could think of us "oh how's my hair look?" "do I look fat in this?" "was what I said just now totally embarrassing?" When in retrospect we are worrying about all the wrong things.
                  Worry in general is not a good way to spend you're time, but the good things to worry about are the good qualities you have in you. As said in the first section of the book, what kind of legacy are you going to leave behind? This got me thinking, how do I want others to see me? How do I think they see me now? How do I even see myself? I think all of these questions have to be answered if one truly wants to be a good leader. In order to be a good leader I feel that you have to be comfortable with yourself and how you appear to others, before you can be comfortable having others want to follow in your foot steps.
                  Before reading this section I was like all of those other people I just mentioned, I cared way to much about what people thought about me for all the wrong reasons, and none of the good. There are so many ways to leave behind a legacy, some good and some are definitely bad. I want to leave behind a legacy to where years from now after I'm graduated and moved on from Bridgewater, people can remember me with good thoughts, and I can smile at the person I had become.